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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP get a private ADOS and a speech evaluation.  This will give the most information.  Have the neuropsych and the SLP communicate with each other and make joint recommendations for placement.  You can bring one or both to the school meeting  to help you fight.

You can reject the placement.  Even if you already agreed, you can withdraw at any time and your kid will go to gen ed.[/quote]

A 4 year old is way to young to have a neuropsych.  And, the ADOS is good for ASD but not always accurate for language disorders.

A child with a language disorder is not going to benefit from being in a class with kids with moderate to severe ASD.  The other kids are not verbal enough to give the child the peers they need.  Its very common for schools to push the ASD label with a language disorder.  Speech therapy is group speech catering to the lowest functioning in the group (or our experience) so it may not meet your child's needs if very different needs.

OP, you need a good speech evaluation and get private speech at this point.  Don't rely on the school system.  It only gets worse and harder as kids get older.[/quote]

But is the placement an ASD classroom? I'm not sure thay the assumption that self contained = no language is correct. I'm also not sure if language use by peers is the key thing, or if it's the therepeutic setting that matters. More importantly, OP does not seem to have a basis to be sure that this is "just" language and not ASD. I wholeheartedly agree with getting a full evaluation, but I disagree with assuming the school is out to get your or malicious. My experience is that they do not recommend a high level of services unless they are needed. OP needs to focus of what those services should be, and where to best get them. Unfortunately it's going to be an uphill battle to get an aide at a DCPS.  Charters may be more amenable to that. [/quote]

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